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"A Perfectly Good Heart" is the fourteenth track from the deluxe edition of American singer and songwriter Taylor Swift's self-titled debut studio album, Taylor Swift, released on November 6, 2007, through Big Machine Records.

Background[]

The song describes someone breaking Taylor's heart, presumably for the first time.

"It's a song that I recorded when I was fourteen. I thought it would be really important to put this on the album because, you know, it's just really innocent. It's about getting your heart broken for the first time and not understanding why somebody would wanna do that. It's before the mind games come in to play, before your second or third relationship, where you don't know anything but trusting people. And this song is about getting that trust betrayed." - Taylor Swift

Live performances[]

In total, Taylor has performed “A Perfectly Good Heart” almost 40 times. She regularly sang it in 2008, during promotion of her debut album when she was a tour opening act for many country music superstars.[1]

Lyrics[]

[Chorus]
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?
Why would you wanna take our love and tear it all apart, now?
Why would you wanna make the very first scar?
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?

[Verse]
Maybe I should've seen the sign
Should've read the writing on the wall
And realized by the distance in your eyes
That I would be the one to fall
No matter what you say, I still can't believe
That you would walk away, it don't make sense to me

[Chorus]
But why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?
Why would you wanna take our love and tear it all apart, now?
Why would you wanna make the very first scar?
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?

[Bridge]
It's not unbroken anymore
How do I get it back the way it was before?

[Chorus]
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?
Why would you wanna take our love and tear it all apart?
Now why would you wanna make the very first scar?
Why would you wanna break?
Why would you wanna break a

Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?
Why would you wanna take our love and tear it all apart?
Now why would you wanna make the very first scar?
Why would you wanna break a perfectly good heart?

Taylor Swift
"Tim McGraw" • "Picture to Burn" • "Teardrops On My Guitar" • "A Place in This World" • "Cold as You" • "The Outside" • "Tied Together with a Smile" • "Stay Beautiful" • "Should've Said No" • "Mary's Song (Oh My My My)" • "Our Song"
Deluxe Edition
"I'm Only Me When I'm With You" • "Invisible" • "A Perfectly Good Heart" • "Teardrops On My Guitar" (Pop remix)

References[]

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